Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
FULTON J. SHEENGod does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
More Fulton J. Sheen Quotes
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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.
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When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
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There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”
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It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.
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Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.
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Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
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Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.
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Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.
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Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.
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It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.
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